delimit

Example Sentences

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One can see this playing out today in the rules for citizenship, voting and other mechanisms that serve to define and delimit participation in democratic politics.

From Salon • Jul. 22, 2023

The two men also agreed that by the end of April they would set up a bilateral commission to delimit the joint border, the statement said.

From Reuters • Apr. 6, 2022

Long before we all started arguing about identity politics, Roth bristled at the suggestion his Jewish background should in any way delimit the nature of his fiction.

From Washington Post • May 23, 2018

The dashed line indicates the ML estimate of the distribution mode, whereas the dotted lines delimit the corresponding 95% confidence intervals.

From Nature • Jun. 10, 2014

The second is missing the commas that delimit the phrases making up the list of inspirations: cooking, her family, and her dog.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker